Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-23
PERSONALITIES.

JIM kEENE has made number Of
fortunate investments lately, and is
said to have q comfortable fortune
well in hand again.
ONLY one London paper commented
in q kindly manner upon George W.
Childs' gift of drinking fountain to
Stratford-on-Avon.
CONGRESSMAN GRAIN, of Texas, Tom
Ochiltree's successor, is the only ma
tlve-born Texan in the delegation from
the Lone Star state.
MRS. ENGLISH, the bride of the ex-
governor or Connecticut, is reported
to be the most popular woman in the
American colony of Nice this season.
The objections to the will of the
late Mrs. Catherine McCoskry, of New
York, have been withdrawn, and it,
will now be admitted to probate.
Under it Williams College will get $780,
900.
THOMAS TIFFANY, of San Francisco,
used to wear as a scarf-pin one of his
lady loves false teeth elegantly
mounted in gold. After this it will not
be surprising to learn that Mr.. Tiff
fany's will is contested.
BARON DE JoEsT, of Paris, noted all
his life for his cruel treatment of all
men and animals he came in contact
with, has left his whole estate of $780,
600 to the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals.
GAsPARD PACAUD, aged 27, is q mem
Der OF the Canadian Parliament, with
every prospect of sobtaining promi-
nence In that body. Two years ago
he was g, clerk in Detroit dry goods
store on g salary of SO per week.
SARAH BERNHARD, whose purse IS
always as slim as her form, has re-
celved from her numerous engage
ments since May last nearly 1,8OO,-
900 francs. What becomes of her
money she is unable to tell herself.
Gov. GORDON, of Georgia, does not
intend that the crop of Southern colo
nels shall become extinct during his
reign. He has appointed a staff of
twenty one aides-de-camp who are en-
titled to the rank of lieutenant colo
mel.
SECRETARY LAMAR was seized upon
the other day by the Emory College
boys at Oxford, Miss. They told him
that since he had taken :Mrs. Holt
from Oxford he must pay q forfeit.
What they demanded was that he
should give the GRAFTON at the next
commencement there. The bride
groom had to bow to the inevitable.
JOSEPH w. DRExEL, who has retired
from business and lives comfortably
on his accumulated fortune In New
York, began life on g. salary of ST.
week. He spent rs cents of his first
weeks earnings for box of water col
ors, and now in later years exercises
the same early taste for pictures as
an accomplished amateur photog-
rapher.
JULES VERNE, who was shot by his
crazy nephew, is almost wholly re-
covered. The famous novelist is
about 53 years of age, his hair is
turning white, and his once supple and
elegant figure is beginning to give way
to comfortable rotundity, but his
intelligent face is still full of youthful
ardor. He has his own yacht and
spends much of his time at sea.
Mr.. KATKoFF, the influential gov
eminent journalist OF Russia, has lost
to some extent the favor of the Car,
through his Paris lieutenant's violent
attacks upon the Grand Duchess
Vladimir. She was denounced in the
Russian organ of Paris as ''vulgar,
fast and ambitious German" AS the
imperial family of Russia is itself
chiefly German, this great offense.